Albums

Date: [Between 1930 and 1935]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Wildey, Alexander, 1865-1953

Reference: PA1-o-408

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others in the Southern Alps. They include views of mountain ranges, glaciers and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers. Most of the photographs are fully described, with names of people usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Landscapes too, are mostly fully described, with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. The album includes a map of the Rakaia-Mathias River area, drawn by E. Porter; a map of the "Three pass route" across the Southern Alps, drawn by Len Boot (p. 003); two extracts from the New Zealand Alpine Journal hand-written by J D Pascoe (from Vol. IV, no. 18, p. 209-210; and Vol. IV, no. 18, p. 213-214); and a photograph of a painting by A E Wildey, with caption "Artist's versin of Carrington Peak" (p. 028). Pages 89-94 show the preparations and work undertaken by a large rescue party involved in searching for two school teachers, B Robbins and H D Smith, who died while attempting to cross the Harman Pass, en route from Hokitika to the Bealey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [247 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1927-1929

From: Duncan, June (Mrs), fl 1997 :Photographs from the estates of Joseph and Frank Duncan

By: Duncan, June, active 1997

Reference: PA1-q-613

Description: Cuttings relate closely with albums PA1-q-611 and PA1-q-612. They contain information about Joseph and Frank Duncan's work with the Wellington City Council and later as road paving contractors. There is also a lot of comment on and debate about the new bituminous roads being laid down in the 1920s as well as descriptions of jobs and contracts undertaken by Wellington and some other local authorities in the Wellington Region and elsewhere in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1880s

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-684

Description: Views of some of the principle buildings and streets of Dunedin Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1914

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

By: Greenwood, (Miss), active 1914

Reference: PA1-o-1012

Description: Album of photographs of a tramp on Mount Egmont made by Dr Agnes Bennett and a friend, Miss Greenwood. The photographs were taken by Miss Greenwood about 1914 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: 1948-1939

From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-724

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1917-1930

From: Kensington, Jacqueline :Photographs, certificates and theatre programmes relating to the Reeve and Oxley families

By: Kensington, Jacqueline, active 1995; Kensington, Iris Merle, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-o-730

Description: A lot of Merle Reeve's relatives and friends, views of cities and towns, especially Palmerston North and Wellington, sports teams associated with Wellington Teachers College, Wellington Boys College, and All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North, in the late 1920s. Scenic views taken on holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1949

From: Nelson Provincial Progress League :Photograph album of images relating to the Nelson-Glenhope railway, 1949

By: Nelson Provincial Progress League; Wood, Geoffrey Cameron, 1920-1995

Reference: PA1-o-363

Description: Album compiled by the Railway Action Committee of the Nelson Provincial Progress League to illustrate the need for there to be action over the neglected Nelson to Glenhope railway Part one shows scenes of railway decay; part two is scenes on the "borrowed" line from Glenhope to Gowanbridge; the third part shows areas where hydro-electric schemes and supplies of timber for power would enable the railway line to be fully built and developed. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album 18 x 23 cm blue board covers, entitled "A wasting asset. New Zealand's oldest railway. Views not suitable for tourist publications" Provenance: The letters accompanying the album indicate that it was sent to the Prime Minister by the Mayor of Nelson, J A Harley, on behalf of the Railway Action Committee. Presumably the PM's Department passed it on to the National Library (and from them to Turnbull).

By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915; Reynolds, W M, active 1889-1890; Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897

Reference: PA1-q-017

Description: Album of photographs showing views of Sydney, Sydney Harbour and Heads, the Hawkesbury River, Katoomba, and also views of Adelaide. Various public buildings in both Sydney and Adelaide are shown including town halls, the public libraries, post offices, and government buildings. Photographs taken by various photographers including George Kitch, W M Reynolds and Charles Bayliss. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth-bound album, 300 x 245 mm Provenance: Creator and provenance details unknown

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-325

Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm

Date: 1884

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-089

Description: Photographs of the South Pacific Islands of Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga taken by Alfred Burton during a cruise on the ship "Wairarapa" in 1884. Cover title is "Fiji scenery"; running title on all pages is "The camera in the Coral Islands". Images include those of Roman Catholic Mission Houses in Samoa and Tonga, and the home of the Reverend James Egan Moulton, Methodist missionary in Tonga, 1865-1906. Other Titles - Fiji scenery Inscriptions: Album page - "Presented to the Port Chalmers Old Identities' Association by Miss H. Baker, late of Warrington, 1932" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue-grey covered album entitled "Fiji scenery", 23 x 30 cm

Date: 1895-1935

By: Smith, Muriel Jean, 1903-

Reference: PA1-o-1886

Description: Photographer unidentified. Scrapbook originally owned by Muriel Smith, a noted pianist. Contains a wide range of photographs and ephemera relating to her and her parents, Mr and Mrs George Smith of Gisborne, dated circa 1895 to circa 1930s. Photographs include studio and amateur portraits of unidentified men, women, girls and groups; a group standing outside a single storey house with verandah; and several of groups outside a large two storied house, presumably their home at 'Berwen', Grey Street, Gisborne. Ephemera items include postage stamps and stickers; Masterton Girls' Collegiate School certificate for Miss Black, 1895; Christmas cards; dance and garden party invitations; dinner menus; a toast list; riddles [from Christmas crackers?]; an advertisement for Gisborne City Hall recital of Len Barnes and Muriel Smith, 1927; and a postcard for United Treat Movement 1913-14 for State School Children of Poverty Bay District organised by Mr and Mrs George Smith. Newspaper clippings include a photograph of students outside Kaiti Girls' College, Gisborne; items about a toast made by George Smith; Muriel Smith returning from two months study in Wellington, 1929; Mrs G Smith having a literary afternoon, having a bridge and tea dance, and a Christmas Eve party; a musical recital with Miss M Smith and Mr L Barnes; and a review of a series of international concerts organised by Muriel Smith and Mr Carrington Wellby, 1930. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 scrapbook containing 48 b&w original photographs, 5 photo-mechanical prints, and 66 items of ephemera which includes 17 newspaper cuttings. Physical Description: Album with blue cover and green leaves, 27.5 cm x 22.0 cm, titled 'Post cards' with a picture of dog and leaves embossed on cover. Provenance: Donated by the Gisborne Branch of NZ Society of Genealogists, 2014, after purchasing it at an auction in Auckland.

Date: 2002 - 2006 - 2003

From: Thorpe, Alec Robert, 1928-2015: Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PA1-q-1204

Description: List of street names and dates between 2002 and 2003. The four photographs have captions and are of roads 2003 and 2006 Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 4. Physical Description: Plastic clear file containing photographs with captions, manuscript, typescript material

Date: 7 and 11 March, and 10 June 2008

From: Thorpe, Alec Robert, 1928-2015: Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PA1-o-1944

Description: Photographs with dates and captions. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 15 and one proof sheet. Physical Description: Orange and red hard cover album with plastic sleeves containing colour photographs with captions, manuscript, typescript material

Date: 6 August 2008-2 July 2008

From: Thorpe, Alec Robert, 1928-2015: Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PA1-q-1201

Description: Photographs with dates and captions, and indexes of street names and dates. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 229 and 2 proof sheets. Physical Description: Blue hard cover album with plastic sleeves containing photographs with captions, manuscript, typescript material

Date: 1915-1920

From: Burrowes, Stanley Gadfield Aglionby, 1891-1968 :Photograph album, negatives, negative album and medal, chiefly relating to Burrowes' service in Egypt and the Middle East during World War I

Reference: PA1-o-1826

Description: One photograph album with images taken mostly by Stanley Gadfield Aglionby Burrowes, who was with the Wellington Mounted Rifles in World War I. The photos were taken in Egypt and the Middle East between 1915 and the end of the war. Album compiled by donor. Images document that Burrowes and the Mounted Rifles were involved in the defence of Egypt and the subsequent Middle Eastern campaign when the transport company that Burrowes was in was developed into an ambulance corps. Pictures show the ambulance train, the Camel Corps, horsedrawn sandcarts and the slow mule team. There are photos of the Mounted Rifle Camp, the Ambulance Camp, `the boys' relaxing, Bedouins, prisoners of war (Germans, Turks and Bedouins), graveyards at Alexandria (of troops from Gallipoli) and Romani and the towns of Luxor, Port Said, Rafa, Jerusalem and Cairo. Many photos have captions on the back. Arrangement: Album included a medal (1914-1915 Star) but was placed in PAColl-10136 to ensure its safety Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mainly silver gelatin prints.

Date: 1942-1943

From: Menzies, Ada Annie, 1918-2000 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1784

Description: Album comprises mainly commercial souvenir photographs of places in New Zealand as well as further photographs of places possibly taken by Lieutenant Colonel Johnston. Includes annotations. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album has a suede cover with a poker-work picture of a Maori chief. 27.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 24 April 2006-23 November 2006

From: Thorpe, Alec Robert, 1928-2015: Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PA1-q-1198

Description: Photographs with dates and captions, and indexes of street names and dates. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 53. Physical Description: Plastic clearfile containing colour photographs with typed captions

Date: [1880s]

From: New Zealand Parliamentary Library: Research papers

By: Fisher, Francis Marion Bates, 1877-1960

Reference: MSY-8433

Description: Bound album of 57 black and white photographic prints documenting Stewart Island and Subantarctic islands of New Zealand (Auckland Islands, Bounty Island, Antipodes Islands, and Campbell Islands), including copy of map, taken by unknown photographers, circa 1880s. Captions: 1 Port Adventure, Steward Island. Regd. 2 Lord's River, Stewart Island. Regd. 3 Lord's River, Stewart Island, Regd. 4 Bald Cone, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island. Regd. 5 Evening Cove, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island. Regd. 5.B. Evening Cove, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island. Regd. [portrays Andreas Reischek seated on shore with government steamer in background] 6 Frazer Peak (1400 ft.) Stewart Island. Regd. 7 Shipbuilder's Cove, Stewart Island. Regd. 8 Wilson's Bay, Boat Harbour, Stewart Island. Reg. 9 Wilson's Bay, Boat Harbour, Stewart Island. Regd. 10 The Snares Island, Boat Harbour. Regd. 11 Penguins on Snares Island. Regd. No. 11.B. [no title - penguins] No. 11.C. [no title - penguins] 12 Penguin Farms on Snares Island. Regd. 13 Cave on Snares Island. Regd. 14 "Derry Castle" Reef, Auckland Island. Regd. 15 "Derry Castle" Huts on Enderby Island. Regd. 16 "Derry Castle" Signal on Enderby Island. Regd. 17 Depot & Derry Castle Punt, Port Ross, Akd. Isd. Rg. 18 Sarah's Bosom, Auckland Island. Regd. 19 Sea Lions, Ross Island, Aucklands. Regd. 20 Waterfall Inlet, Auckland Island. Regd. 21 "Stella" Watering, Cascade Inlet, Aucklands. Reg. 22 West Entrance Carnley Harbour, Aucklands. Reg. 23 Adam's Island, Carnley Harbour, Aucklands. Regd. 24 Monument Isd., Carnley Harbour, Aucklands. Reg. 25 Wreck of the Grafton, Epigwaitt, Aucklands. Reg. 26 Wreck of the Grafton, Epigwaitt, Aucklands. Reg. 27 Wreck of the Grafton, Epigwaitt, Aucklands. Reg. 28 Remains of Epigwaitt, Aucklands. Regd. 29 Beeman Hill, Campbell Island. Regd. 30 Beeman Hill, Campbell Island. Regd. 30B. Mount Honey 1,800 Campbell Island. 31 N.E. Harbour, Campbell Island. Regd 32 Albatross Hunter, N. E. Hr., Campbell Isd. Regd. 33 Tucker Pt. and Garden Cove, Campbell Island. Reg. 34 Albatross, Summit of Campbell Island. Regd. 35 Albatross, Summit of Campbell Island. Regd. 36 Remarkable Arch., Antipodes Island. Regd. 37 Boat Harbour, Antipodes Island. Regd. 38 North Head, Antipodes Island. Regd. 39 Antipodes Island. Regd. 40 Government Depot, Antipodes Island. Regd 41 Eastern Islands, Antipodes Group. Regd. 42 Penguins and Molly Hawks, Bounty Island. Regd. 43 Penguins and Molly Hawks, Bounty Islands. Regd. 44 Molly Hawks and Penguins (Inst.) Bounty Isds. Reg. 45 Molly Hawks and Penguins (Inst.) Bounty Isds. Reg. 46 Penguins and Molly Hawks, Bounty Islands. Reg. 47 Penguins and Molly Hawks, Bounty Islands. Reg. 48 Molly Hawks and Penguins, Bounty Islands. Reg. 49 Molly Hawks and Penguins, Bounty Islands. Reg. 50 "On Deck," between Campbell and Bounty Isds. Reg. 51. Molly Hawks and Penguins, Bounty Islands. Reg. 52 [no title caption - men on beach with hole in a rock]. Ownership inscription of Francis 'Frank' Marion Bates Fisher (1877-1960) on front pastedown. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound album, photographic prints and printed captions mounted on leaves, 37 x 31 cm.

Date: [ca 1935-1940s]

From: New Zealand Parliamentary Library: Research papers

Reference: MSX-10071

Description: Album of photographic views of Wellington Harbour, including copy photographs of artistic depictions dating from 1841 and original photographic prints dated to 1935. Includes typescript index to the images with captions. Includes one print with blind-stamped photographer imprint of Horace R Maybury, Wellington. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Album with title in gilt on applied spine label, typescript index page of captions, and 20 black and white photographic prints mounted on 20 numbered black pages, 18.5 x 30.5 cm.